Southern California Best Sellers
hardcover fiction
1. Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf: $28) Lifelong best friends collaborate on a blockbuster video game.
2. I have some questions for you by Rebecca Makkai (Viking: $28) A film teacher, who is also a podcast host, returns to her boarding school and finds herself embroiled in an investigation of a murder that occurred there when she was a student.
3. Hello beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Dial: $28) A college student from a home torn apart by tragedy falls in love with a woman with close ties to her sisters.
4. Copperhead Demon by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $33) The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
5. Chemistry Lessons by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a chemist becomes a single mom, then a celebrity chef.
6. Pineapple street by Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman: $28) The wealth of old money is seen once again in a novel that follows three women in a Brooklyn family.
7. Old Babies in the Woods by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday: $30) A collection of short stories from the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
8. Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square: $20) A Tokyo cafe offers patrons the chance to travel back in time.
9. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (FSG: $28) A New Zealand environmental collective forms an uneasy alliance with an American billionaire doomsteader.
10. Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $28) A giant Pacific octopus teams up with a widowed worker at a Washington state aquarium and tries to help her solve the mystery of her missing son.
hardcover nonfiction
1. The creative act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer’s guide to being a creative person.
2. I’m glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $28) Memoir of the star of the TV shows “iCarly” and “Sam & Cat.”
3. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons through four archetypes.
4. Atomic habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) The self-help expert’s guide to developing good habits and breaking bad ones through small changes in behavior.
5. enchantment by Katherine May (Riverhead: $26) The author of “Wintering” takes readers on her journey to discover what was missing from her life.
6. Time saving by Jenny Odell (Random House: $29) The author of “How to Do Nothing” suggests new ways to experience time.
7. No script by James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams (Penguin: $32) The inside story of the battle for control of the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire overseen by the Redstone family.
8. spare by Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex (Random House: $36) A groundbreaking and controversial memoir of British royalty.
9. Ugly-Cute by Jennifer McCartney (Harper: $15) A look at animals that are unattractive (to humans).
10. The mentality of greatness by Lewis Howes (Hay House: $27) A self-help guide to living your best life from the author of “The School of Greatness.”
paperback fiction
1. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine: $17)
2. The house of sweets by Jennifer Egan (Writer: $18)
3. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square: $17)
4. The four winds by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin: $19)
5. End with us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $17)
6. The maid by Nita Prose (Ballantine: $18)
7. Never Never by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher (Canary Street: $18)
8.Circe by Madeline Miller (Back Bay: $17)
9. The house in the cerulean sea by TJ Klune (Total: $19)
10. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Penguin: $18)
paperback nonfiction
1. All about love by bell hooks (tomorrow: $17)
2. The body keeps score by Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19)
3. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $13)
4. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House: $20)
5. Sweet Grass Braid by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed: $20)
6. The path of the artist by Julia Cameron (Tarcher Perigee: $19)
7. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Vintage: $17)
8. Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke (Duton: $18)
9. How to love by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illustration) (Parallax: $10)
10. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper: $25)
